Record Details

NHER Number:9625
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric pot boilers, Late Bronze Age pottery sherds and saddle quern fragments

Summary

In 1951, during the construction of a road on the housing estate here, a Bronze Age saddle quern, calcined flints and sherds of coarse Late Bronze Age pottery sherds were recovered.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 269 093
Map Sheet:TG20NE
Parish:THORPE ST ANDREW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1951. Stray Find.
In dumps of soil north-west of Gargle Hill Plantation removed from topsoil in making new road for housing estate.
Saddle quern, calcined flints and sherds of coarse Late Bronze Age pottery, (S1). [1]
Compiled by R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POT BOILER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • QUERN (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • POT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 20 NE 12.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Thorpe St Andrew.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Unknown. 1951. Drawing of Bronze Age pottery fragments.. Film. 1:1.

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